The Palau de les Arts begins selling new season tickets for the 2011-2012 season

Valencia (September 9, 2011) – The Palau de les Arts Reina Sofía will begin its new season ticket sales campaign next Monday, September 12. The renewal period for season tickets has concluded with nearly 90% of tickets renewed for the 2011-2012 season.
Starting next Monday, September 12, those interested in purchasing new season tickets for the 2011-2012 season can submit their application form, available at www.lesarts.com, until 6:00 p.m. on September 14. Forms can be sent by fax to +34 961 97 59 01, by email to abonos@www.lesarts.com, or directly through the Season Ticket Holder section of the arts center's website.

The new season ticket offer comprises 8 different season ticket options, all with a carefully curated selection of shows designed to suit the preferences and expectations of all spectators, and which, with a wide range of prices, can be purchased from €324.

Also, from the 12th to the 18th of this month, subscribers can take advantage of preferential access to tickets for shows that will complement their Subscription Sessions, as well as Passes for the V Festival del Mediterrani, which during this period will have a special discount of 40%.

The Palau de les Arts is maintaining its ticket prices for the fourth consecutive season, as well as the 10% discount that season ticket holders receive on all their tickets. Palau de les Arts season ticket holders also enjoy a program of special benefits, such as the option to request a change of seats for the same performance on a different day, or discounts on parking at L'Umbracle and on tickets to the City of Arts and Sciences.

Advance general ticket sales for the public will begin on October 5th through the website, www.lesarts.com, and, from October 6th, those interested can also purchase their tickets at the Palau de les Arts box office, from Monday to Friday during its usual hours of 12:00 to 20:00, and on the Telephone Sales Line 961 975 900, from Monday to Friday from 12:30 to 18:00.

The shows included in the different subscription series, from A to H, are, among others, the new co-production of the Valencian arts center with Teatro Regio di Torino and Teatro Petruzzelli di Bari of Modest Mussorgsky's Boris Godunov with musical direction by Omer Meir Wellber and stage direction by film director Andrei Konchalovsky; Gioachino Rossini's La Cenerentola, under the baton of Michele Mariotti and stage direction by Luca Ronconi; Jonathan Miller's unprecedented production of Mozart's Don Giovanni for the Palau de les Arts with Zubin Mehta in the pit; the double bill dedicated to Manuel de Falla with Giancarlo del Monaco's acclaimed production of La vida breve and a new staging of El amor brujo directed by Omer Meir Wellber; and Jules Massenet's Thaïs with Plácido Domingo as Athanaël. and their own production of Giacomo Puccini's Tosca with musical direction by Omer Meir Wellber and Plácido Domingo.

Subscribers for this sixth season will also enjoy a rich roster of leading orchestral conductors in the various operatic concerts and symphonic evenings programmed. Valery Gergiev will return after his acclaimed performance of Hector Berlioz's Les Troyens to conduct the same composer's dramatic symphony Roméo et Juliette . Riccardo Chailly will make his Palau de les Arts debut with the Orquestra de la Comunitat Valenciana, performing a concert version of Richard Strauss's Ariadne auf Naxos . Plácido Domingo will once again take to the pit to present a concert version of Massenet's Le Cid , while the Teatro Real Orchestra will perform for the first time in Valencia under the direction of Teodor Currentzis, conducting Pyotr Tchaikovsky's Iolanta . Omer Meir Wellber, the arts center's music director, heads the symphonic offering for the 2011-2012 Season, which also includes conductors such as Zubin Mehta, Plácido Domingo, Andrea Battistoni, and Christian Vásquez.